Meet the Team
Built by operators
for operators.
We built New Circle after decades on the hook for outcomes—shipping products, leading teams, and making the hires that determine whether strategy survives contact with reality.
We have paid the retainers, run the internal gauntlet anyway, watched searches drift, and lived the real cost of a compromised hire: lost time, broken momentum, and cultural debt that takes quarters to unwind.
New Circle is the alternative to recruiter-led search. A decision-driven hiring system run by operators, built to create clarity before outreach, evidence before opinions, and a hire-or-no-hire conclusion you can stand behind.
Senior talent acquisition and search leader with 20+ years advising leadership teams on executive hiring, workforce strategy, and organizational health. A founding member of Daversa Partners, she helped launch and scale the firm's retained executive search practice across technology verticals, partnering with clients on role definition, succession planning, compensation benchmarking, candidate slate development, and end-to-end interview processes. She later served as Vice President of Client Solutions at EssentialDx, working with executives on AI-enabled, data-driven culture and workforce diagnostics to improve readiness, retention, and hiring outcomes.
Operator and innovator who has spent 15 years building and scaling AI-native software companies from ideation to scale. Entrepreneur-in-Residence at SRI International's AI Center. Founded Trapit, an early AI-powered media personalization platform. On the founding team and served as President and COO of Alioth (Hunt Scanlon Top 40 Search Firm, Inc. 5000), an AI-enabled executive search firm serving the life sciences industry, and its subsidiary EssentialDx, an organizational culture and executive talent acquisition platform—bringing a rare blend of applied AI, operating leadership, and executive decision support.
Operator-methodologist who has lived the talent and culture challenges he helps companies solve. As Head Methodologist at EssentialDx, he built practical frameworks for diagnosing organizational culture and improving hiring decisions, then partnered with executive teams to turn those insights into systems organizations could actually run. His ability to surface root issues, build alignment across stakeholders, and move high-stakes discussions to clear decisions is central to the New Circle approach. 20 years of technology experience building and scaling product and engineering organizations.
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